2020-25 Turned Around

Have you ever been to a new place and felt like you did not know where to go? Did you ever get turned around? I'll tell you a story about being turned around.

It was the first trip the boy ever made to the Canyon. He went with his father. They left the ranch early in the morning and went away up into the tall quaking aspens.

Along in the afternoon they started back to the ranch. The boy was in high glee. He sat behind his father on the wagon, holding on the binder lever. As they rode down the canyon, horses on the trot, they made a sudden turn in the shape of a horseshoe. This turn gradually moved out on the other side of the canyon and on down the way. The boy said to his father, after they had made the horseshoe curve:

“Father, you are going wrong.”

The father said, “Are we?”

He said, “Yes, don't you see?”

And the horses trotted on, and the boy looked this way and that way up and down, and said:

“Pop, you are turned around.”

And the father said, “Well, do you want to get off?”

And he said, “No, pop, I'll stay with you.

On they went and the boy said, “Pop, the canyon is turned around.” On they went, and finally they came around a little bend to a little opening that led up to the place where the ranch was, and he said, “We are straight again.” As they got off the wagon he said, “Gee pop, I'm glad I stayed with you.”

By George H. Brimhall

Sometimes we get turned around and need to decide if we are going to change our path.  Through life’s path you will eventually come to a crossroad where you may feel lost and don’t know where to go. Who better to help us along the path of life than our father’s and father figures?

To all those fathers and father figures, we wish you a very happy father’s day.